Ear plugs should reduce intensity of sounds across the board. Yes, they’re less effective against low frequency noise, but reducing the intensity any amount goes a long way – the logarithmic scale is real!
I also personally find high frequency noise to be more disruptive: a car speeding by making wind noise is a lot worse than a large truck rumbling by slowly. Lower frequency is lower energy, after all
I kind of see your point, but only in the context of working on time-sensitive task which others rely upon. But if it is hobby/educational project, what is wrong doing things by yourself? And resort to decomposing existing solution if you can't figure out why yours is not working?
There's nothing better for understanding something rather than trying to do that "something" from scratch yourself.
I think the point is that OP is learning things about a wide variety of topics that aren't really relevant to their stated goal, i.e. solving the sensor/state inference problem.
Which, as you say, can be valuable! There's nothing wrong with that. But the more complexity you add the less likely you are to actually solve the problem (all else being equal, some problems are just inherently complex).
I would say that AI is not to blame here. It just accelerated existing process, but didn't initiate it.
We (as a society) started to value quantity over quality some time ago, and, apparently, no-one care enough to change it.
Why tighten the bolts on the airplane's door yourself if you can just outsource it somewhere cheaper (see Boeing crisis)?
Why design and test hundreds of physical and easy-to-use knobs in the car if you can just plug a touchscreen (see Tesla)?
Why write a couple of lines of code if you can just include an `is-odd` library (see bloated npm ecosystem)?
Why figure out how to solve a problem on your own if you can just copy-paste answer from somewhere else (see StackOverflow)?
Why invest time and effort into making a good TV if you can just strap Android OS on a questionable hardware (look in your own house)?
Why run and manage your project on a baremetal server if you can just rent Amazon DynamoDB (see your company)?
Why spend months to find and hire one good engineer if you can just hire ten mediocre ones (see any other company)?
Why spend years educating to identify a tumor on a MRI scans if you can just feed it to a machine learning algorithm (see your hospital)?
What more could I name?
In my take, which you can say is pessimistic, we already passed the peak of civilization as we know it.
If we continue business as usual, things will continue to detiorate, more software will fail, more planes will crash, more people will be unemployed, more wars would be started.
Yes, decent engineers (or any other decent specialists) will be likely a winners in a short term, but how the future would unfold when there will be less and less of them is a question I leave for the reader.
> Why tighten the bolts on the airplane's door yourself if you can just outsource it somewhere cheaper (see Boeing crisis)?
This is just an overreach of a process that means that airplane flights aren't $1m+. Aircraft issues have plummeted, if you'll excuse the expression, while flight numbers have soared. You've got to have noticed that.
You haven't answered those questions. Tesla's touchscreen displays maps, navigation, self-driving's model of the world around the car, reversing camera, distance to car in front, etc. Yes personally I prefer a physical control I can reach for without looking, but the physcial controls in my car cannot do as much as a touchscreen, cannot control as many systems as a modern car has. And that means something like a BMW iDrive running some weird custom OS in amongst the physical controls, and that was not a nice convenient system to use either.
Why write a couple of lines of code when you can just include an `is-odd` library? Hopefully one which type checks integers vs floats, and checks for overflows. I'm not stating that I could not write one if/else, I'm asking you to do more than sneer and actually justify why a computer loading a couple of lines of code from a file is the end of the world.
Why invest time and effort into making a good TV if people aren't going to buy it, because they are fine with the competitor's much cheaper Android OS on questionable hardware?
Why run and manage your project on a baremetal server, and deal with its power requirements and cooling and firmware patching and driver version compatibility and out-of-band management and hardware failures and physical security and supply chain lead times and needing to spec it for the right size up front and commit thousands of dollars to it immediately, if you can just rent Amazon DynamoDB and pay $10 to get going right now?
I could fill in the answers you are expecting, I have seen that pattern argued, and argued it myself, but it boils down to "I dislike laggy ad-filled Android TV so it shouldn't exist". And I do dislike it, but so what, I'm not world dictator. No company has taken over the market making a responsive Android-free TV, so how/why should they be made to make one, and with what justification?
> What more could I name?
Why go to a cobbler for custom fitted shoes when you could just buy sneakers from a store? (I assume you wear mass produced shoes?) Why go to a tailor when you could just buy clothes made off-shore for cheaper? (I assume you wear mass produced clothes?) Why learn to play a keyboard, guitar, drums and sing, when you could just listen to someone else's band? (I assume you listen to music?) Why spend months creating characters and scenarios and writing a novel when you could just read one someone else wrote? (I assume you have read books?) Why grow your own food when you could just buy lower quality industrially packaged food from a shop? (I assume you aren't a homesteader?) Why develop your own off-grid power system with the voltage and current and redundancy and storage you need when you could just buy from the mains? (I assume you use mains electricity?)
You could name every effort-saving, money-saving, time-saving, thing you use which was once done by hand with more effort, more cost, and less convenience.
And then state that the exact amount of price/convenience/time/effort you happened to grow up with, is the perfect amount (what a coincidence!) and change is bad.
To tptacek and other guys who seem to have unwavering trust in OCRs/LLMs, as
well as to opposite party who think that technology is not there yet — you are
all partially right, but somehow fail to hear each other while also spending
time on baseless arguing instead of factual examples and attempts to find
common truth.
Can it be used to greatly simplify efforts by getting through boilerplate? — Yes.
Should the result be reviewed and proof-read by human? — Also yes.
(2)
…and I don’t know whether it can be reset for a
date in December or not. Cornell seemed
anxious that it should not come up too close to Christmas,
and of course new suspicion [would be aroused?] [about?] him.
I will take this up with the Judge as soon as I can get rid of the brief.
Meanwhile I would like to know whether there is anything else
in which I can be useful to you, since it behooves me
in ways of uncomfortable relations with the present management.
Are you going East in December?
Has any word come from Hagerman?
Were there any noteworthy developments at the hearings
on the [Teapot?] trial?
I have no inclination yet whether Wheeler will be wanted in
Washington, but the chances are that he will not.
With regards to all the brethren and [flock?], I am
very sincerely yours,
George A. H. Fraser
I'm not native english speaker, but even I can read where it is wrong.
I'll leave it to be an excercise for the reader to find out mistakes, but it is
certainly not a Teapot trial.
Somehow GPT-4o performs better on this example and fails only on "New Mexican
practise" part.
From https://www.handwritingocr.com - seemed to be more accurate, mostly getting the New Mexican and possibly other parts:
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and I don't know whether it can be reset for a date in December or not. Cornell seemed anxious that it should not come off too close to Christmas, and of course New Mexican practice would support him. I will take this up with the Judge and with Hanna the moment I can get rid of the brief. Meanwhile I would like to know whether there is anything else in which I can be useful to you, since it behooves me to be diligent in view of uncomfortable relations with the present management.
Are you going East in December?
Has any word come from Hagerman?
Were there any noteworthy developments at the hearings on the Tenorio tract?
I have no intimation yet whether I will be wanted in Washington, but the chances are that I will not.
Looks entirely accurate except for the end. It’s interesting it didn’t catch “I am” or George’s name correctly, given how difficult some of the text is on this page.
Edit: Oh I see from another thread this OCR site is your creation. Nice work!
I am primarily interested in applied projects that make a difference and aim to tangibly reduce human and animal suffering: med R&D, eco, civil infra, pharma or space, but may consider other projects as well.
Location: Armenia (UTC+4) [temporary]
Remote: Yes (flexible working hours including US timezone)
Willing to relocate: Yes, preferably to country with high HDI
Technologies: technology agnostic. Boring and incomplete list of things I have worked with: frontend (React, Vue, Vite/Webpack, Typescript), backend (Go, Node, Python, Java, PHP, Erlang, Clojure), databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis, Memcached, ES, MongoDB), ops (Linux, *sh, K8s, Docker, VMs, IPMI, Zabbix, Grafana, Prometheus, Nginx, HAProxy, AWS, GCP, baremetal, on-call), ML (coding, [cross-]validating models, deploying, simulated envs), networks (all OSI levels), low-level (C, Ziglang, CUDA, assembly), hardware (MCUs, AVR, I²C, SPI, prototyping).
Résumé/CV: I have ~15 YoE and worked with a number of startups and projects, both as independent contractor and team leader. Check my GitHub to get rough overview: https://github.com/seletskiy and https://github.com/reconquest. Please contact me for more details.
I wrote a bash script [1] with similar functions for my piano, which produces ogg recording and raw midi recording, as well as splitting realtime rendered midi stream (via fluidsynth) into two audiostreams (I've mostly used it for Zoom calls with a piano teacher).
Location: Armenia
Remote: Yes, but flexible
Willing to relocate: Yes, to a country with higher HDI
Technologies: technology agnostic, everything from microelectronics to Web/GUI frontends
Résumé/CV: on request, prefer 1:1 video chat
Email: s.seletskiy@gmail.com
15+ YoE. Architect, lead engineer.
I would like to join biotech, med, eco, civil infra or aerospace projects that aim to tangibly reduce human and animal suffering and figuring out internal workings of Universe we live in.
Excel in small pragmatic teams with no bureaucracy. Able to provide optimized and highly reliable software.
Practically speaking, I have no idea what I _personally_ can do except of accepting the inevitable.